Life Series
Category: News & Current Affairs

Life: Untouchable?
Category: Documentaries
The daily life of Veerasamy, a Dalit (untouchable) who lives in a small village in southern India. Discrimination based on caste membership has been illegal in India since 1947 - but, clearly, it still exists.

Life: The Posse
Category: Documentaries
The story of a group of young people trying to survive in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The film is centered around a rap group whose songs explain the inequalities of life in Brazil today.

Life: The Philadelphia Story
Category: Documentaries
Life visits Philadelphia to look at how the global economy is destroying some traditional employment while making others rich.

Life: For a Few Pennies More
Category: Documentaries
The story of Kamidi, an Indonesian living in rural Java who suffers from cretinism, and how his doctor dramatically improved with an injection of iodine-infused oil.

Life: The Ongoing Story
Category: Documentaries

Spotlight: Superdollar Plot
Category: Documentaries
This film revisits the case of four men sent to prison for distributing counterfeit currency, tracing its distribution network from North Korean presses to Moscow's underworld.

Life: Educating Lucia
Category: Documentaries
By exploring the lives of three sisters from Zimbabwe, this episode examines why, across Africa, the odds are dramatically against girls getting an education.

Terra Nas Nossas Maos
Category: Documentaries
Explores Brazil's Landless Workers Movement, the largest social movement in Latin America, and the obstacles it faces in its peaceful struggle for land reform.

Life: Debt Police
Category: Documentaries
Explores the impact of the "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries" (HIPC) debt relief program, agreed to at the G7 Summit, on Uganda's poor.

Life: Credit Where Credit Is Due
Category: Documentaries
A report on how "micro-loans" have revolutionized the lives of several village women in Shilmundi, a village in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Life: The Cost of Living
Category: Documentaries
Pramote lives in Bangkok and has AIDS. If he'd been able to afford the drugs now routinely prescribed for HIV-positive people in the West he wouldn't be paralyzed today.

Life: Bolivian Blues
Category: Documentaries
The economic problems facing Bolivia, and the success of a new initiative designed to achieve real poverty reduction.

Life: Because They're Worth It
Category: Documentaries

Life: A-OK?
Category: Documentaries
A look at the political inertia surrounding the issue of the critical Vitamin A deficiency in the children of developing countries.

Andres Levin

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